Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Reading musses up my mind.

My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.